Night after night since the children disappeared, George and Mary Darling wait in the nursery hoping for their return. While George, imminently practical, tallies and figures the cost of any and all possible futures, Mary is resolute that they will return. After all, she saw the boy they've run off with face to face, even if it was through a second story window. Even if that means the boy could fly. Even if that means believing in the impossible. They are a lonely pair—even Nana won't come into the nursery anymore— though they are visited on occasion by George's imperious and wildly emotional mother. As George and Mary get farther and farther apart, magic creeps ever closer to their lives. It isn't until the boy arrives that they are given any answers— that they see for themselves what it takes to fly.